Improving Life Outcomes: Trajectories Into and Through Post 16 Education - CTLR Research and Practice Conference

Join us for this one-day research in practice conference:

Improving Life Outcomes: Trajectories Into and Through Post 16 Education

When: Friday 27 June, 9.15AM-3:30PM

Where: Global Studies Resource Centre, Ground Floor, Arts C Building, University of Sussex

The day will include:

• Keynote from Sharon Gewirtz, Professor of Education in the School of Education, Communication & Society at King’s College London and co-director of the Centre for Public Policy Research. Sharon will discuss the findings from the five-year Young Lives, Young Futures study: https://www.ylyf.co.uk/. This focuses on the 15-20 age group and how the vocational education and training (VET) system can be developed to better support the school-to-work transitions of those young people at greatest risk of falling between gaps in the system and experiencing a range of negative outcomes and lifetime costs.

• Two presentations of recently completed research:
  • Understanding embodied learning in Level One Construction classrooms in FE (Greg Campbell)
  • Navigating Post 16 education, employment and training trajectories from Alternative Provision (Hannah Olle)
• A policy and practice panel discussion, that will allow a wide range of sector and service experiences on challenges, opportunities and needs to be shared. Panel members will include: 
  • Cath Oddhayward, Head of the Swan Centre, a specialist centre for young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs, including Autistic Spectrum Condition, based in a mainstream secondary academy, Brighton and Hove City Council.
  • Fenella Potterton, Assistant Principal for Student Experience, East Sussex College
  • Tolulope Sawyer, Inclusion Officer for Children with a Social Worker/Previously Looked After Children/ Kinship, Essex Virtual School

There will be opportunity for questions and discussion around each session. Refreshments and a sandwich lunch will be provided!

Please share widely with your networks! This event will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an interest in supporting trajectories into post 16 education as well as beyond

This event is hosted by the Centre for Teaching and Learning Research (CTLR).

Best wishes,

The CTLR Team